Here’s how a cliff-clinging population on a remote volcanic stack rewrote extinction for one of the world’s rarest insects.

Warm weather and heavy rains do more than feed the plants and cool off Arizona’s hot summers. It also brings out insects and arachnids in droves. Arizona saw heavy rain showers and thunderstorms over ...

Entomologist Mary Liz Jameson, right, shows Luz Horton which kinds of dung beetles likely live on the land where she and her husband, Jamin Horton, own a bison ranch. Burlingame — Without dung beetles ...

Ever notice how some gardens seem to thrive with fewer pests and more blooms? The secret often lies in attracting the right ...

When DDT was first sprayed on large areas to kill insect pests, some naturalists issued grisly warnings that the poison would “upset the balance of nature” causing all sorts of unpredictable havoc. It ...

"That’s their blood meal." Experts issue warning as disease-carrying insects appear in new US regions: 'They are locked into ...

Model organisms refer to non-human organisms that are used in the laboratory to understand the structure and function of animals by means of examining their biological processes. These are typically ...